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Because the UK wantonly detained Iraqis, President Qusay was very angry. After 24 hours of protesting, there was still no response from the British side. Qusay decided that for such a rogue country, then, we must do this The decision to leave one's own country.

At the same time, Iraq decided to increase mandatory tariffs by [-]% on various goods exported to Iraq from the United Kingdom.

When this news was released, it immediately aroused the concern of countless people.

This move by Iraq can be said to be unprecedented. Before that, only developed countries came up with this method to disperse diplomats and impose compulsory tariffs. Iraq actually used this trick against the United Kingdom, making the world feel that Iraq’s The waist has already stood upright.

Britain and Iraq, the two sides started a new diplomatic conflict.

However, this diplomatic conflict did not grab the commanding heights of the news. Just today, I don’t know how many people beat their chests and sighed that they had lost such a good opportunity.

Once the drop in oil prices started, there seemed to be a kind of magic power. The international oil price actually fell below the $39 mark, reaching $35, and at noon on this day, it fell to $[-].

Looking at the falling oil price, the happiest thing is the United States. I think that this time I can finally use low-priced crude oil, which will stimulate the growth and prosperity of various domestic industries. The economic situation in the United States will also start to improve. , This time put pressure on Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, which has a very good effect.

However, in this context, some economists also began to worry, because the price of oil fell too fast. Among them, there seemed to be some problems, as if someone was manipulating the price of oil, but they were just worried.

In an ordinary investment company located in Hong Kong, a war without gunpowder started.

If they want the oil price to drop rapidly, then they have to keep selling oil futures. In the past two days, they have spent almost [-] hours in front of the computer, buying oil futures non-stop, and then selling them non-stop. , Hong Kong's developed economy and stock futures market allow them to operate oil futures in various countries, including the United States and Europe's major oil-importing countries, through countless accounts.

"General manager, we are operating like this now, and we have always been at a loss. We have lost 15.00% of the amount now. Is this okay?" Zhang Manyu held a folder tightly with her hands, and turned to the calm backstage boss. , Sarah asked.

15.00%, it seems that the loss is not much, but its base is nearly 200 billion U.S. dollars, and it has lost 30 billion U.S. dollars. Even if all the companies in Hong Kong are sold, they will not be able to sell so much money.What's more, these funds will be operated through the market, such as using part of the funds as collateral to perform operations such as re-borrowing, etc., and can obtain several times the operating funds. What they can actually operate has reached 1000 billion U.S. dollars.

Sarah had already taken off her cumbersome Arabian attire at this time, and in an international metropolis like Hong Kong, she wore the same attire as those professional women, both energetic and capable.

However, compared to the original, Sarah has lost the last trace of shyness on her body, because she is no longer a big girl, she has finally become a woman, a woman who has become a hero in the Middle East, and in the future, there will be more will be his wife.Deep in Sarah's heart, there was already a tenderness.

"There is no need to worry about this. We need to continue to do this to make the price of oil lower, so that we can buy the bottom and earn more. Now, we are waiting for this opportunity, Manyu, if we want to succeed, then, You must be willing to invest, especially, at this time, you must remain calm." Sarah said.

Zhang Manyu thought of the calm command of the mustache from the Middle East last time, and gradually felt relieved. This time, it will definitely be as successful as last time!

In fact, Sarah has no idea. She is not worried about Qusay, she is just worried that this oil futures speculation requires several prerequisites. Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, they can control, but what about other countries?Can they control it?

Thinking of this, she felt relieved. She knew that her man was the most powerful, as long as he said, he would definitely do it.

"The futures price has dropped to 32 dollars. It seems that it can fall below [-] dollars today." A trader said.

Thirty dollars!This price is already the psychological bottom line, now, should we act?

Latin America.

In the north of here, there is a country that is famous for its beauties. A small country with a population of only 2600 million has won more than 60 international beauty pageants, including Miss World 5 times, Miss International 5 times and Miss Universe 6 times. wait.Created a miracle in the world, there is a popular saying here, if you are not beautiful, you would rather die.If Sister Furong and Sister Feng of later generations came to this country, they would definitely be street rats, and everyone would shout and beat them.

And here, it is even more famous for producing oil. This country is Venezuela.

Venezuela is one of the world's important oil producing and exporting countries and one of the four founding countries of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries. Its recoverable conventional oil reserves are 776.8 billion barrels, ranking first in the Western Hemisphere and fifth in the world. However, this country is not Unrest, insurgency and violent conflict, has at times enveloped the country.

The normally normal western Lake Maracaibo area, which is the main oil-producing area, was suddenly patronized by anti-government armed forces. They resorted to violence in order to force the zhèngfǔ to release one of their main leaders who was arrested not long ago The method destroyed several oil wells here, but the zhèngfǔ did not compromise, so they made a means to affect the world's oil, destroying an important oil pipeline here.

Venezuela produced more than 200 million barrels of crude oil in Japan. However, the oil pipeline was damaged, and more than half of this oil could not be exported for the time being.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, Baghdad.

"President Qusay, our operation can begin," Yurid said.

Venezuela's oil pipeline has just been destroyed, and the news has not yet been publicized. However, Iraq has already received the news. Starting with this, the 200 billion dollars invested have finally begun to harvest.

"Mexican oil workers are about to hold a one-week strike to protest the low wages of the zhèngfǔ." Yourid continued.

After the two foreign aid matters are settled, the remaining Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait will be settled easily.

The world oil price will go through a fluctuation under its deliberate promotion. After this fluctuation, a group of international speculators will be drowned.

"Notify the Hong Kong side that we are going to start action." Qusay said.

"There is news from the Middle East, and our operation will begin immediately." Zhang Manyu came in from the outside and said anxiously.

Ready to start?The action is very fast. Sarah looked at the highly nervous traders and said, "From now on, buy all the oil futures in the world, both short-term and medium-term!"

After investing so much, it is finally time to reap the rewards. For a moment, Sarah was in a trance. The man she fell in love with could actually come up with such an idea. How many pockets of speculators would be emptied by him? !

The fingers of the traders kept beating on the keyboard, and the crude oil futures markets of various countries had already fallen into their hands. At this time, the price of crude oil futures finally fell to the limit.

In the morning, the biggest news in the world was probably the diplomatic conflict between the United Kingdom and Iraq. Now, the conflict between the two sides has escalated. In Baghdad, the capital of Iraq, all citizens holding British passports have been subjected to some secret police. The interrogation by the police caused the British side to express a strong protest. This is an insult to the British Empire!Unfortunately, Iraq ignored it and continued.

However, up to now, this news is not very important anymore. They are all looking at another news. In Venezuela, there was a conflict between the zhèngfǔ army and the Communist armed forces. The place where the conflict happened was actually in the main oil-producing area In the Lake Maracaibo area, the conflict caused the destruction of an important oil export pipeline. Venezuela is currently working hard to resume oil output as soon as possible.

Not long after this news was released, there was news of a strike by oil workers from Mexico, and Mexico's oil exports were also greatly affected.

Chapter 742 I'm Not Here

At [-]:[-] p.m. Iraqi time, all eyes of the world were on Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Iran, the major oil exporters in the Middle East.

Today, oil prices have just dropped, and they haven't tasted the benefits of low oil prices yet, but oil prices will undergo new changes again. What will happen to oil prices?

So far, everyone has expected that the Saudi-led increase in production and price cuts may not be implemented. It is okay for oil prices to remain at the current $[-] a barrel, and even a slight increase is acceptable.

Those investors with a keen sense of smell, those investors who have just withdrawn from the oil futures market, feel very regretful for their withdrawal. They all threw out at a loss, but now it seems that there must be a profit!

It's just that very few people have sold out all the oil futures in the current market. They want to buy them, but they have no way to start. They have to watch the changes in oil prices with greedy eyes.

At exactly eight o'clock in the evening that day, the Saudi Oil Minister reluctantly issued a statement, which shocked the whole world like a bolt from the blue.

"I'm very sorry, our oil production increase plan in Saudi Arabia has encountered unimaginable difficulties. Now, 84 years are about to pass. During this year, all our oil well facilities should be overhauled and aging parts replaced, but Now, because we are producing at full speed instead, various problems have occurred in the oil wells. In order to ensure safe production, the Saudi oil platforms will carry out inspection and maintenance in batches, which is expected to last for half a month , we in Saudi Arabia will try our best to maintain the current oil production and ensure sufficient oil supply." After listening to the Saudi oil minister, all the people in front of the TV had a feeling that they wanted to pull out the man wrapped in the robe and beat him An impulse.

At the beginning, it was Saudi Arabia that said it wanted to increase production. Now, other oil-producing countries have problems, and Saudi Arabia also has problems. Isn’t this intentional to make all oil importing countries in the world look good?

Within 5 minutes of the announcement, the US ambassador to Kuwait met with the emir urgently, hoping that Kuwait could work hard to increase oil production and help tide over the dangerous period of the past few days.

Kuwait accepted this request very calmly and promised to continue to increase oil production. However, Kuwait’s crude oil production capacity is limited. Even if it increases production, it will not be able to make up for the gap in Saudi oil. Among OPEC members, the largest exporter of oil is Saudi Arabia. , the second largest oil exporting country is Iran, the fifth round is Kuwait, and Kuwait's production is a quarter of that of Saudi Arabia.

And at this time, another blockbuster was finally produced in Iraq. The Iraqi Oil Minister delivered a harsh speech, expressing his dissatisfaction with the drop in oil prices caused by the wanton increase of crude oil production by OPEC members. Seriously affecting the oil income of member states, increasing crude oil production to increase their own income is simply killing chickens and taking eggs, especially now that the price of oil has dropped to the bottom price of [-] dollars a barrel. Within a few days, it has caused Iraqi The loss of nearly tens of millions of dollars in oil exports is absolutely intolerable to Iraq!

Iraq's unequivocal opposition to increasing crude oil production has taken a tough stance. These words have completely shocked the world.

If Iraq had released these words in the past, it would not have caused too much shock in the world, but now it is different, because Iraq occupies the oil-rich Khuzestan province and also owns many offshore drilling platforms Now, Iraq's total oil reserves and oil production are only less than one-fifth lower than that of Saudi Arabia. The intention of Iraq's words is very obvious. As long as Iraq reduces crude oil production, then the international oil price will definitely increase. will rise dramatically.

Iraq's attitude is very strong. This is a contradiction among OPEC members. Saudi Arabia did not follow OPEC's quota production, greatly increased oil production, and helped the world lower oil prices. Isn't this digging its own grave?

After hearing the final voice of Iraq, the international crude oil futures market started to rise all the way.

The U.S. ambassador to Iraq received a mission from the U.S. and urgently asked to see Iraqi President Qusay. However, he was told that President Qusay was not in Baghdad and had gone to Basra!

He then went to meet the Iraqi oil minister, and after Hikmat was promoted to deputy prime minister and finance minister, Qusay promoted Ubaidi-Rashid, who was Qusay's former minister in the southern military region, as the new oil minister. A member of the local zhèngfǔ was in charge of the restart and production of the Abadan oil refinery after the liberation of Abadan. He worked under the instructions of Tariq and Hikmat and gradually stood out. When Tariq While Hikmat started to perform more other tasks, Ubaidi started to take on all the tasks of the Abadan refinery and completed it very well.Later, after Iraq occupied Khuzestan Province, Qusay reused Ubaidi to manage the oilfield facilities here. After Hikmat vacated the position of oil minister, Qusay finally promoted Ubaidi to the In this important position of the Minister of Petroleum.

At this time, it was less than two months since Ubaidi took office, and Brightman, the US ambassador to Iraq, was not familiar with him.